Ohm Run: One-Atom-Tall Wires Could Extend Life of Moore’s Law

There may be a bit more room at the bottom, after all. [More] View full post on Scientific American Topic – Nanotechnology

Tiny Toilers: Precision-Controlled Microbots Show They Could Take On Industrial-Scale Jobs [Video]

A pioneering research institute that introduced the computer world to the mouse , hypertext and networks is now setting its sights a bit lower. A team of engineers at SRI International , a nonprofit contract research and development lab in Menlo Park, Calif., has harnessed simple, magnetically levitated microbots to build structures and perform other [...]

Easy-to-produce black silicon could unlock promising applications

High density and high aspect ratio nanowhiskers have many uses across a wide range of fields including solar energy, batteries and chemical sensing View full post on nanotechweb.org: lab talk

Scaled-Down Success: Programmable Logic Tiles Could Form Basis of Nanoprocessors

In the race to build ever-smaller microchips, researchers have tinkered for more than a dozen years with an end-run technique that would shrink things to previously unrealizable scales. Rather than etching away semiconductors with photolithography to create circuits and processors–a top-down process that is limited by the light wavelength used–bottom-up fabrication could yield even smaller [...]

Could nanotech particles help treat STDs?

Researchers have already demonstrated in the lab that the materials the body uses to make proteins can also successfully suppress several different types of viruses, including HIV and influenza A , by disrupting the formation of viral proteins . Less clear, however, was how to get these virus-busting molecules where they needed to be in [...]

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